Bomb City

Bomb City (2017) is a crime drama directed by Jameson Brooks — watch it online on iFILM. Based on a true event from Amarillo, Texas in 1997, the film follows a group of punk kids whose ongoing feud with a wealthy local clique ends in a killing.

Brian and his friends are immediately readable as outsiders in their conservative town. That's enough. When a confrontation turns fatal, the case goes to trial — and the film shows, without editorializing, how a jury drawn from that same community hears the evidence. Who gets the benefit of the doubt depends heavily on what you look like.

The structure cuts between the trial and the events leading up to it, and the intercutting does real work. For a film made on a tight budget, Bomb City lands a precise question: how neutral is a justice system embedded in a culture that has already decided. Stream Bomb City online on iFILM.